Loans

Monthly increase in secured lending of 5%

February 2012, which was a post credit crunch record itself, saw £26,000,000 lent...

Positive Lending and UTB behind Silverstone F1 competition

Specialist lending packager and distributor Positive Lending and United Trust Bank are offering the...

Y3S helps Shawbrook complete largest loan

Shawbrook Bank has completed on a £330,000 secured loan, its largest to date. ...

OFT revokes payday lender’s licence

Online payday lender, MCO Capital has had its consumer credit licence revoked by the...

Promise offers unsecured loan facility

Promise Solutions has unveiled an online unsecured loan facility for its introducing brokers. Interest rates...

Brightstar holds second Masthaven lender day

Brightstar Financial is holding its second Lender Day in association with Masthaven Bridging and...

New products from Prestige Finance

Second charge lender Prestige Finance, acquired last year by OneSavings Bank plc, has launched...

Micro-businesses being shunned by traditional finance sources

Only 20% of micro-businesses were funded through a bank loan and one in six...

New product from Equifinance

Promise Solutions has exclusively launched Equifinance Plus, the latest lender to join the secured...

Sesame Bankhall Specialist Lending Services expands panel

Sesame Bankhall Specialist Lending Services (SBSLS) has added Shawbrook Bank (Shawbrook) to its...

Payday lenders risk losing licences after OFT crackdown

The Office of Fair Trading has given notice to 50 main payday lenders that...

Smart Money Loans unveils broker marketing package

Smart Money Loans has launched a package of marketing literature aimed at the broker...

Promise completes Nemo’s largest ever loan

Master broker Promise Solutions has completed a loan for £199,000 including fees, which represents...

HSBC sells secured loan portfolio

A portfolio of secured loans has been sold by HSBC-owned HFC Bank Limited and...

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What the agents say: 2026 housing market predictions

Next year should be a year of steady progress for the housing market. After a challenging 2025 where we saw little to no house...

Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market

When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived at the City of London office of the fast-growing mortgage...

Younger consumers are ready for protection. So why aren’t we reaching them?

For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...

The buy-to-let market continues to defy expectations

Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...

Advisers are missing a clear chance to help clients with survey advice

For years, advisers have often seen surveys as something outside their core work. Some did not know enough about them. Some were unsure how...

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MPs launch inquiry into OBR’s first 15 years

The Treasury Committee has launched an inquiry to reflect on the Office for Budget...

Atom backs investor’s move into commercial property with £3m warehouse loan

Atom bank has completed a £3 million commercial mortgage to support an established residential...

CHL Mortgages widens upper LTV range with new fixed-rate options

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has expanded its upper loan-to-value range with a series of...

Swansea Building Society expands West Wales leadership remit

Swansea Building Society has promoted Sioned Jones to area manager, West Wales, with effect...

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